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Central Military Hospital receives hygiene excellence award

Central Military Hospital 108 is among the five to receive the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award and Innovation Award 2021 for excellently performing hand hygiene at the recent Hand Hygiene Excellence Award Ceremony 2022 in Singapore.
Central Military Hospital receives hygiene excellence award ảnh 1The winners of the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award and Innovation Award 2021 at the award ceremony in Singapore on July 28. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) — Central Military Hospital 108 is amongthe five to receive the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award andInnovation Award 2021 for excellently performing hand hygiene at the recentHand Hygiene Excellence Award Ceremony 2022 in Singapore.

The award opens up opportunities for the hospital to strengthenlocal and international cooperation in exchanging infection control experiencesand maintaining hand hygiene improvement.

The Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence and Innovation Award wasinitiated by the Asia Pacific Association for Infection Control incollaboration with the Hospital (BV) University of Geneva in 2010. It honoursmedical facilities with the best hand hygiene programme in the region andencourages excellent hand hygiene models to improve patient safety.

Overcoming difficulties given by the rapidly spreading COVID-19pandemic worldwide, the hospital's Faculty of Infectious Diseases was one amongmore than 20 candidates reaching the final round.

It has made great efforts in launching the hand hygiene movement,educating awareness about the importance of hand hygiene and strengtheningmonitoring and supervision. On June 2, after going through a strict evaluationprocess based on actual data and images from the hospital's five-year report,the hospital became one of the five winning medical facilities to receive theAsia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award 2021 alongside representatives fromJapan, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

Previously, four other Vietnamese hospitals had also received the award, namely the National Children's Hospital in 2019, the HCM City's University ofMedical Centre in 2015, the Hung Vuong Hospital in 2013, and the Cho RayHospital in 2012./.

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